Cannot load photo (There was an error loading this photo)

I get this message whenever I try to edit a photo in my camera roll. I do not have iCloud enabled and can’t seem to find any decent solutions around the forums. I’ve tried restarting my device. I have this issue for lots of pictures. It is only when I click edit. One in particular has a mark on it that I wanted to touch up but it will not let me. Please help

iPhone X

Posted on Sep 30, 2019 7:15 PM

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Posted on Dec 14, 2019 10:35 PM

frizzo2020 dskldkld


Yes Snapseed worked for me by saving a copy. Messaging a photo to myself and then saving said photo worked as well.


Hope this helps.


None of my photos from my Canon and Sony cameras loaded in Photos nor could I edit them, unless I used Snapseed or messaged the photo to myself.


But since the latest update iOS13.3 I noticed that any new photo I imported to my Photos, the photo was able to be opened and edited.


There were still many of my Canon and Sony photos that wouldn't load, open or able to be edited even with the latest update. So what I did, I deleted all those photos which I had uploaded to my iPhone from iCloud.com. These photos remained a problem and I was getting tired of waiting for a fix!


Once I updated to iOS 13.3 I then re uploaded my Canon and Sony photos to my iPhone via iCloud.com and these photos now open. Even my Photoshop artwork opens in Photos, which they used to in iOS 12. iOS 13 screwed everything up.


I don't know how long Apple engineers will take to fix that bug which seems to affect some photos after the iOS 13 update. The support team contacted me a couple of weeks ago and still no fix and no news.








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Nov 13, 2019 7:07 PM in response to Rosa07

Thanks for all your effort on this! I also find that many of the photos now with poor resolution too! Does it happen to urs also? Plus can edit them and showing error messages! The photos with error messages can’t even be send via iMessage or any other social media app! Oh my! The only way I found right now is they can be open by Snapseed and the resolution will be back to high quality and u will need to re-edit something then re-save it! But it’s gonna be killing ppl to do it over the dozens of photos in the phone sigh!

Nov 24, 2019 10:23 PM in response to Mrksts

Mrksts My issues are with all .jpg files from my Canon and Sony Cameras uploaded to iCloud via desktop which my iPhone won't open. However if I take those same files into Photoshop and save/change the file name to .jpeg and upload to iCloud via desktop then they will open on my iPhone.


Apple engineers installed their profile on my iPhone then collected data from my iPhone Photo Library on and off for 3 weeks while I took them through my experience with the problem.


Apple engineers eventually found the issue and logged it as a bug. I've not heard from them for just over a week, but I expect it takes time for them to work this thing out.




Dec 24, 2019 12:33 AM in response to JacobHelpme22

When I click on thumbnails to edit, an error message pops up: “Cannot load photo/There was an error loading this photo/OK”. And it won’t let me upload a screen shot here, due to error code: “The uploaded image file is too big. It should not exceed 5 mB”. Pretty sad when Apple won’t even let you upload a standard sized screenshot of the problem. Can’t even upload my photos to Pinterest for the same reason cuz it gives a “Something went wrong” error message. Tried restarting 5x or more. Problem only started after I installed the latest update.

Jan 20, 2020 5:40 AM in response to Rosa07

You’re right. I was on another thread where there was a issue re starting FaceTime via iMessage app and It and it went on for a year. Others also had the same issue and replied. We all went through the same troubleshooting and through 3 iOS updates and it was never resolved. I really don’t have much hope this would be any different.

Jan 20, 2020 6:26 AM in response to Warzau

Warzau I was thinking about opening up the support ticket again but just thinking about the months I dedicated to this issue and having to be home at a certain time at my PC so Apple could do the same thing week after week collecting my data through my phone via iTunes and then having their profile installed in my phone. Honestly it was like I was repeating myself week after week.





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